Tobacco-pouch



(No Model.)

W. J. OUSSEN; TOBACCO POUCH.v

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UNITED STATES PATENT EFICEQ f VILLIAM J. CUSSEN, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

TOBACCO-POUCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,293, dated January 6, 1891.

Application led October 23, 1890. Serial No. 369,067. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. CUssEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco Pouches, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l represents a perspective View of my tobacco-pouch complete; Fig. 2, a vertical sectional view of the pouch filled and closed; Fig. 2. a detail transverse section of the tube or hem; Figs. 3 and 4, rear views of the pouch, showing different. forms of tubes, and Fig. 3 a detail transverse sectional view on the line :t o: of the tube shown in Fig. 3.

The invention has reference particularly to that class of tobacco -pouches provided with devices that enable the consumers to refasten them, after portions of their contents have been removed, in such a manner that the tobacco remaining in the pouches may be kept in a solid compact mass and in prime condition until entirely removed.

The object of this invention is to provide extremely simple and effectual means for tightly closing the pouches after portions of their contents have been removed, whereby the tobacco remaining in the pouches may be kept in a solid prime condition until used.

In the drawings annexed, a designates a bag or pouch of the ordinary construction. Secured to the upper edge of the rear side of the bag is one end of a fastening braid orv cord l), the free end of which when the pouch is filled and fastened is passed down in front around the bottom of the bag and up the rear side thereof over the top of the pouch. In passing up the rear side of the pouch the string is inserted in an aperture in the back of the bag and passed up through a vertical casing or tube c, formed on the interior of the same, this tube or hem extending, preferably, about half the length of the pouch and terminating at the upper edge thereof near the point of attachment of the spring. This tube is formed of the material of which the bag is made, preferably by simply forming a hem along the interior of thesame. The end of the string or braid is provided with an eyelet or knot to prevent its leaving or being drawn down into the tube.

The bag is packed in the usual manner and its upper edges folded over upon the tobacco. The string is then drawn tight around the bag by simply pulling upon its free end, which projects from the upper open end of the tube. When the cord is drawn tightly around the bag, the friction caused by the pressure of the material in the bag will hold the cord against slipping without the use of any other fastening device whatever. To loosen the cord and open the bag, it is simply necessary to draw down upon that portion of the cord lying upon the vback of the bag beloW the tube, whereupon the cord will readily pass out of the tube sufficiently to be moved to one side off the bag.

The advantages of this fastening device are obvious. It is not only extremely simple and inexpensive, thereby enabling me to sup ply a bag having it to the trade at about the Same price as the ordinary bags now on the market,` but it is also adjustable and readily tightened and loosened, and is positive and secure in action without the use of any hooks or other metallic fasteners to injure the bag or the person carrying it. Its essential feature of advantage is that it adjusts itself to the Varying size of the bag, thereby enabling the consumer to refasten it in such a manner that the tobacco remaining in the bag will be kept in a solid and prime condition in the bottom of the same.

I do not desire to confine myself to the exact construction shown and described, inasmuch as the same might be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention. For instance, as shown in Fig. 4, the vertical tube through which the string passes may with equal advantage be formed upon the exterior of the bag. As shown in Fig. 3, metallic eyelets may be inserted in the apertures in the bag, through which the cord passes to and from the tube to prevent wear and unraveling of the material.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure, is-

A bag or pouch provided with a vertical tube open ait both ends, this tube being I friction 1o prevent the cord slipping, suhtormed along the 'rear sido of the bag, und n 1 smuiially :is described. 1o cord attached :it one end 'to th'eup'per edge In testimony whereof I zux mysigu-Liture in of the rear side of the bag and having its free presence of t-wo witnesses.

end passed around the bag and up through VVITLIAM J. CUSSEN. the said vertical tube, whereby when the \\"iti1esses:

cord is drawn tight the outward pressure of JOS. E. SORG,

ih@ uelosed material will cause sufficient WM. G. GWATKIN. 

